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MY 13-YEAR-OLD SON informs me that the term "slut" is out; "skank" is in.

Either term refers to a perpetually sexually active, unmarried woman. These days,
however, if you get a group of skanks together and add a few equally skanky men,
you have a popular TV sitcom such as, for example, "Friends" or "Frasier."

Where you may not imagine flagrant skank-hood to flourish is the Miss Universe
Contest. Yet this is exactly where millions of unsuspecting parents and their
children were recently confronted by skanks.

Luann J. from Dallas wrote me that she and her three children, a boy age 6, and
two daughters, 9 and 10, were watching the Miss Universe Contest the last week of
May. "We were talking throughout the whole pageant about these young ladies
competing for the title -- that they were beautiful, but also smart, intelligent
young ladies, and role models for girls around the world. Boy, was I ever proven
wrong."

What could possibly have happened during this broadcast to generate the
hundreds of shocked and angry responses from parents all over America? It was a
simple question: "If you became pregnant during your reign as Miss Universe, what
would you do? Would you continue to reign?"

All across America parents waited for the "right answer" from these last three
finalists. The first contestant answered that yes, she would continue to travel as
Miss Universe and that being pregnant shouldn't hinder her at all. "Well," writes
Luann, "I about blew the roof off the house. I lectured my children that she just
blew it and there was no way that she could win after that 'moral-less' answer."

The second contestant, asked the same question, answered the same way -- that
becoming pregnant wouldn't interfere with her travels or her duties. Luann's kids
"chimed in with me that she blew it and that contestant No. 3 is going to win
because surely she will do the right thing."

Luann, her children and families across America held their stunned breath as
contestant No. 3 got ready to answer. This woman turned an out-of-wedlock pregnancy
into an expression of her femininity! And for this utterance of outrageous, amoral,
feminist stupidity, Contestant No. 3 became Miss Universe. Groan.

Luann wrote that her three children looked at her and said they guessed "there
must not be anything wrong with getting pregnant when you are not married. I told
them that if I were the judge I would have walked out and not voted for any one of
the three. I sat my children down and took the opportunity to talk morals. I
explained to them that it is not acceptable to have sex before you are in a loving,
committed marriage. It is not acceptable to be Miss (which means single) Universe
and be having sex. She would be an awful role model for young girls around the
world."

Caroline A. from Palmdale, Calif., was horrified. "I permitted my 14-year-old
niece to watch the pageant, as I assumed it was one of the few television programs
I didn't have to worry about monitoring. Boy, was I wrong! I think I am more livid
about the response of the participants than even the inappropriateness of the
question."

Robert M., Salt Lake City, wrote: "When the question was asked to the final
candidates, my wife asked me, 'What would you say?' I said I would say, 'Well,
since we aren't allowed to be married (as Miss Universe), we obviously can't be in
a committed relationship. Since every child deserves to have a solid home with both
a mother and a father, I think it would be deplorable and irresponsible for Miss
Universe to set out to deprive a child of that chance. So, of course, someone with
that kind of character should not be in such a position of responsibility as Miss
Universe.'"

Roger L., Adrian, Mich., is "very angry and nearly broke my television set. I
have three children, all daughters, all under the age of 10, and I am incensed by
the fact that the world so glibly portrays having babies out of wedlock as a good
thing."

It is stunning that a society which tracks down so-called "deadbeat dads" for
child support money simultaneously lauds women who intentionally make babies with
no marital commitment, knowing full well that psychologically, children are damaged
by the loss of a dad in an intact, two-parent home. It is disgusting that our
obsessiveness about our rights, our feelings, our wants and our absolute freedoms
has so blinded us to the obligation to provide for and protect the weakest among
us, our children.

An insidious commercial aimed at women used to say, "We've come a long way,
baby." Yes, we have come a long way toward creating hell for children.
Congratulations.

I call upon every American city to cancel a visit by Miss Universe: no pomp, no
ceremony, no press, no turnout and no respect, please. A skank is a skank -- our
society can't afford to honor such a visible attack on the basis of civilization:
the yourself."

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